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> Also OpenAI in no way has a monopoly of the kind that Visa/MC has. They've been working very hard on getting one for at least a year though. Every time Altm

> Also OpenAI in no way has a monopoly of the kind that Visa/MC has. They've been working very hard on getting one for at least a year though. Every time Altman whines about the dangers of AI, he's lobbying for government regulation that would raise barriers to entry into the market. And please no, god forbid there are any free solutions. Let's drown them in regulation worth a few hundred million per year.

doctorpangloss 2y ago
All he’d have to do is get interest rates to rise 25bps and then poof, his competitors would evaporate.
- pixl97 2y ago
  Saying we should replicate the Russian economy then?
  - doctorpangloss 2y ago
    I'm mocking the whole idea of this or that lobbying being done to crush a particular competitor, when tech companies are very much a Rising Tide Lifts All Boats business.
    - pixl97 2y ago
      Tech companies like Microsoft, one of the few ever convicted monopolists in the US
    - nottorp 2y ago
      They don't want to crush a particular competitor, they want to crush all competitors :)
- derektank 2y ago
  I think Google has deeper pockets than OAI. The only competition I can see getting priced out by higher interest rates is Anthropic
echelon 2y ago
Open source is going to eat "Open"AIs lunch. Llama and Qwen are giving GPT and o# a run for their money. And you can build actual applications atop them. Hunyuan is as good as Sora and works with ComfyUI and a robust set of open tooling and controlnets. LTX runs blindingly fast on consumer hardware. Nobody talks about Dall-E anymore which is how far the open models have progressed. Why use a shitty web UI when you can have Invoke's incredible inpainting, brushes, and layers for free? Or fine tune your own style? This game isn't going to be about foundation models. The value of a foundation model is fungible and will go to zero. The switching costs are zero and there are too many players. This is a game about compute and applications. Thanks for speed running the game OpenAI and showing everyone the way. We don't need you anymore.

doctorpangloss 2y ago

All he’d have to do is get interest rates to rise 25bps and then poof, his competitors would evaporate.

pixl97 2y ago
Saying we should replicate the Russian economy then?
- doctorpangloss 2y ago
  I'm mocking the whole idea of this or that lobbying being done to crush a particular competitor, when tech companies are very much a Rising Tide Lifts All Boats business.
  - pixl97 2y ago
    Tech companies like Microsoft, one of the few ever convicted monopolists in the US
  - nottorp 2y ago
    They don't want to crush a particular competitor, they want to crush all competitors :)
derektank 2y ago
I think Google has deeper pockets than OAI. The only competition I can see getting priced out by higher interest rates is Anthropic

echelon 2y ago

Open source is going to eat "Open"AIs lunch. Llama and Qwen are giving GPT and o# a run for their money. And you can build actual applications atop them. Hunyuan is as good as Sora and works with ComfyUI and a robust set of open tooling and controlnets. LTX runs blindingly fast on consumer hardware. Nobody talks about Dall-E anymore which is how far the open models have progressed. Why use a shitty web UI when you can have Invoke's incredible inpainting, brushes, and layers for free? Or fine tune your own style? This game isn't going to be about foundation models. The value of a foundation model is fungible and will go to zero. The switching costs are zero and there are too many players. This is a game about compute and applications. Thanks for speed running the game OpenAI and showing everyone the way. We don't need you anymore.